When Minnie Terese ( Minna) Gnadt was born on 13 August 1864, in Germany, her father, Carl Albert Gnadt, was 45 and her mother, Augusta Taube, was 32. She married Emil Louis Nofs on 28 April 1886, in Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States for about 50 years. She died on 19 July 1948, at the age of 83, and was buried in Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States.
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Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.
The Chicago water tower was built out of Lemont limestone by William W. Boyington and was used for firefighting and also drawing clean water from Lake Michigan. The tower gained prominence after the Great Chicago Fire of 1871. Some believe that the tower was the only building to survive the Great Chicago Fire, but a few other buildings survived alongside the tower. The tower has become a symbol of old Chicago and how the city recovered from the fire. The tower has undergone only two renovations since 1913.
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
South German: topographic name for someone living on an incline, from Old High German gināda ‘incline, slope’, or a nickname or status name for someone who received a fief (feudal property) "by grace", from Middle High German genāde ‘grace, pity, compassion, trust support, protection’.
German: from Middle High German genāde ‘inclination to help, grace, favor’, probably a nickname for someone who enjoyed the favor of his feudal lord.
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